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Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

By: Ian Tregenza

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Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

By: Ian Tregenza

Michael Oakeshott is widely recognised to be one of the most original political philosophers of the twentieth century. He also developed a very influential interpretation of the ideas of the great seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. While many commentators have noted the importance of Hobbes for understanding Oakeshott's thought itself, this is the first book to provide a systematic interpretation of Oakeshott's philosophy by paying close attention to all facets of Oakeshott’s reading of Hobbes. On the surface, Oakeshott, the philosophical idealist and critic of rationalism in politics, would seem to have little in common with Hobbes, who is often regarded as a classic materialist and rationalist philosopher. This work shows, however, that despite appearances, there are many basic affinities between the two thinkers and that Oakeshott brought to the surface aspects of Hobbes’s thought that had previously been overlooked by Hobbes scholars. The development of Oakeshott’s own theory is shown to mirror changes in his reading of Hobbes and many of the distinctive features of Oakeshott’s thought including the modal and sceptical conception of human knowledge, the ‘morality of individuality’, the theory of civil association, and the critique of rationalism all find a fascinating focal point in his writings on Hobbes. Some attention is also paid to Oakeshott’s religious ideas, indicating what they share with Hobbes’s philosophy of religion. The book situates Oakeshott’s reading in relation to some other important twentieth century interpretations of Hobbes and examines its significance for broader debates in political theory and the history of ideas.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845405420

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9781845405427

Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

A Secular State?

By: Stephen Chavura,John Gascoigne,Ian Tregenza

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Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

A Secular State?

By: Stephen Chavura,John Gascoigne,Ian Tregenza

How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society that was from the beginning marked by a high degree of religious plurality. This book tracks the rise and fall of the established Church of England, the transition to plural establishments, the struggle for a public Christian-secular education system, and the eventual separation of church and state throughout the colonies. The study is unique in that it does not restrict its concern with religion to the churches but also examines how religious concepts and ideals infused apparently secular political and social thought and movements making the case that much Australian thought and institution building has had a sacral-secular quality. Social welfare reform, nationalism, and emerging conceptions of citizenship and civilization were heavily influenced by religious ideals, rendering problematic traditional linear narratives of secularisation as the decline of religion. Finally the book considers present day pluralist Australia and new understandings of state secularity in light of massive social changes over recent generations.

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Routledge

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0429883471

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The Symmetry Perspective

From Equilibrium to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space

By: Martin Golubitsky,Ian Stewart

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The Symmetry Perspective

From Equilibrium to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space

By: Martin Golubitsky,Ian Stewart

The framework of ‘symmetry’ provides an important route between the abstract theory and experimental observations. The book applies symmetry methods to dynamical systems, focusing on bifurcation and chaos theory. Its exposition is organized around a wide variety of relevant applications. From the reviews: "[The] rich collection of examples makes the book...extremely useful for motivation and for spreading the ideas to a large Community."--MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

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338

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Birkhäuser

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3034881673

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9783034881678

Managing Children's Services

By: Ian Broinowski

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Managing Children's Services

By: Ian Broinowski

Managing Children's Services provides the underpinning knowledge and skills necessary to manage and administer children's services programs effectively. Written in three parts the book first introduces philosophical and marketplace perspectives. It then deals with and introduction to management, including theories and structures of children's services. The third part covers a broad range of issues involved in administration, such as financial management, office administration and organisational planning. Each chapter has expanded upon and written to reflect new approaches to learning including additional references and resources.

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Lulu.com

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0244728895

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9780244728892

The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice

By: Ian Norman,Iain Ryrie

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The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice

By: Ian Norman,Iain Ryrie

*Interested in purchasing The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing as a SmartBook? Visit https://connect2.mheducation.com/join/?c=normanryrie4e to register for access today* This well-established textbook is a must-buy for all mental health nursing students and nurses in registered practice. Comprehensive and broad, it explores how mental health nursing has a positive impact on the lives of people with mental health difficulties. Several features help you get the most out of each chapter and apply theory to practice, including: • Personal Stories: Provide insight into the experience of mental health difficulties from the perspective of service users and their carers • Thinking Spaces: Help you reflect on your practice and assess your learning individually and in groups, with further guidance available online • Recommended Resources: Provide additional materials and support to help extend your learning New to this edition: With four brand new chapters plus nine chapters re-written by original authors, key developments in this edition include: • Physical health care of people with mental health problems • Care of people who experience trauma • Promoting mental health and well-being • Support needed by nurses to provide therapeutic care and to derive satisfaction from their work • Innovations in mental health practice ‘The newly revised and updated edition has continued to offer an intelligent and readable text that offers a great deal to both students and those undertaking continuous professional development … This edition continues to offer “thinking spaces” that encourage the reader to reflect upon and consider what they have learned in a most practical way. I wholeheartedly recommend this book and continue to be impressed with its high standards of presentation and scholarship’. Emeritus Professor Tony Butterworth CBE, Chair, Foundation of Nursing Studies, Vice Chair RCN Foundation, UK ‘It is a pleasure to open this book and to see the comprehensive range of information and evidence based guidance in relation to effective practice in nursing. Even If you only buy one professional book this year make it this one!’ Baroness Watkins of Tavistock; Crossbench Peer, PhD and RN (Adult and Mental Health), UK ‘The importance of the teaching within this book cannot be underestimated … The book is written by credible and respected practitioners and will support mental health nurses to practice from the best evidence available today working from and with the human condition’. Beverley Murphy, Director of Nursing, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335226914

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9780335226917

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook

By: Victoria Todd,Ian Todd,Jane Gardiner,Erica Morrin

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Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook

By: Victoria Todd,Ian Todd,Jane Gardiner,Erica Morrin

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate instruction manual for mitigation measures to minimise man-made acoustical and physical disturbances to marine mammals from industrial and defence activities. Based on more than two decades of offshore experience, and a decade of supplying MMO and PAM services (commercial and scientific), the Handbook is a long-overdue reference guide that seeks to improve standards worldwide for marine operations such as seismic and drilling exploration, wind farm and civil engineering piling, dredging, trenching, rock-dumping, hydrographical surveys, and military/defence exercises. By popular request, this manual will also form an accompaniment to MMO and PAM courses. The Handbook consolidates all aspects of this discipline into one easily accessible resource, to educate all stakeholders (e.g. MMOs, PAM operators, suppliers, recruitment agencies, clients, contractors, regulators, NGOs, consultants, scientists, academia and media), regardless of experience. Topics include worldwide legislation, compliance, anthropogenic noise sources and potential effects, training, offshore life, visual and acoustic monitoring (theory and practice), marine mammal distribution, hearing and vocalisations, and report writing. Advice is provided on implementing sensible and practical mitigation techniques, appropriate technologies, data collection, client and regulator liaison, and project kick-off meetings. "The Handbook is an indispensable How To guide to the growing and increasingly important occupation of marine mammal monitoring, written with clarity and humor by scientists who have extensive experience in this field." —Dr Phillip J. Clapham, world-renowned cetologist and Director of the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle.

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Pelagic Publishing Ltd

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1907807683

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9781907807688

The SS of Treblinka

By: Ian Baxter

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The SS of Treblinka

By: Ian Baxter

In January 1942 senior officials of the Nazi regime met to discuss the 'final solution to the Jewish question', at a gathering that became known as the Wannsee Conference. As part of the resulting Operation Reinhard, camps were built with one aim in mind, not to imprison the Jews, but to kill them. By the time the extermination camp of Treblinka was made fully operational in July 1942, the SS had built a killing factory capable of despatching hundreds of thousands of people which could be run by only a handful of guards. But who were these men who ran Treblinka, many of whom had volunteered for the job? Were they ordinary people following terrible orders, or were they monsters? In The SS of Treblinka, Ian Baxter reveals the true natures of the men who during the camp's short operation, murdered some 850,000 Jews. Some of them appeared outwardly to have been kind family men who then inflicted terrible cruelties on those in their power, while a few were afterwards spoken about with affection and gratitude by survivors. Using official documents, trial transcripts and private correspondence, he describes how these men lived day to day, inured to scenes of tragedy, eating and drinking the provisions their victims had brought with them under the delusion that they would be resettled, and what they thought of the thousands of people who arrived at the rail station positioned only metres from the gas chambers, whose bodies they would oversee being burned within the hour.

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173

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The History Press

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0750979801

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9780750979801

Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

By: Ian Baxter

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Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

By: Ian Baxter

Literature highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust has concentrated on the incarceration of Jews and others deemed hostile to Hitler’s Reich in ghettoes and their fate in the death camps. Little coverage has been given to the role played by the Deutche Reichsbahn (German National Railway). In fact, the success of the ‘Final Solution’ was dependent on the efficient utilization of the vast train network of Germany and the Nazi occupied territories. Without this it would have been impossible for Hitler’s henchmen to transport their victims in sufficient number to the extermination camps such as Auschwitz. While conditions on the trains were invariably inhuman, many Jews were forced to fund their own deportations through deposits paid to the SS towards ‘The resettlement to work in the East’ program. Although these ‘death trains’ competed for valuable track space with Nazi war effort requirement, the importance of the extermination program perversely prevailed. The conclusion of this well researched and highly illustrated book is that without the Reichsbahn, the industrial murder of millions of Jews, Roma and other ‘undesirables’ would not have been possible on the scale that was so tragically achieved

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399040111

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9781399040112

The First Blitz in 100 Objects

By: Ian Castle

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The First Blitz in 100 Objects

By: Ian Castle

A visual history of this forgotten WWI bombing campaign: “A fantastic book. Remnants of stained glass windows, grocery shop scales . . . and so much more.” —War History Online The First World War ushered in many new and increasingly deadly weapons and strategies—none more so than Germany’s sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain, which opened an entirely new theatre of war—the Home Front. It was a shocking awakening to twentieth-century warfare for the military and civilians alike. There are still fascinating glimpses of this first air campaign, long overshadowed by the Blitz of World War II—to be found in the streets of British towns and cities. Often unnoticed, each tells its own dramatic tale of death and destruction, or maybe of heroism and narrow escapes. Museums hold tantalizing reminders of the air raids, from complete aircraft that defended the country to relics of great Zeppelins that initially brought terror to the British population but ultimately were doomed to become nothing more than great heaps of burnt and twisted wreckage. This first-time assault from the air both terrified and fascinated citizens—and unexpectedly, a significant trade in air raid souvenirs developed, from postcards of wrecked houses and bomb craters to china models of Zeppelins and their bombs and pieces of Zeppelin wreckage. And among the 100 Objects brought together in this book, there can also be found tales of resilience, humor, and determination—which all have their place in the story of this First Blitz

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1526732904

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9781526732903

Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

By: Ian Tregenza

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A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

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Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

By: Ian Tregenza

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A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas

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1845405439

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Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

A Secular State?

By: Stephen Chavura,John Gascoigne,Ian Tregenza

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Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

A Secular State?

By: Stephen Chavura,John Gascoigne,Ian Tregenza

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Routledge

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0429883471

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Project X Origins: Turquoise Book Band, Oxford Level 7: Discovery: Mixed Pack of 5

By: Tony Bradman,Michaela Morgan,Claire Llewellyn,Ian Whybrow,John Malam,Jo Tregenza

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Project X Origins: Turquoise Book Band, Oxford Level 7: Discovery: Mixed Pack of 5

By: Tony Bradman,Michaela Morgan,Claire Llewellyn,Ian Whybrow,John Malam,Jo Tregenza

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 5 reading books, 1 of each of: The Silver Box, Tiger's Discovery, Dragon Hunter, George's Bright Idea, Finding Things.

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Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

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Managing Children's Services

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The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice

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Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook

The SS of Treblinka

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Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution

Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution

The First Blitz in 100 Objects

The First Blitz in 100 Objects

Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity

Project X Origins: Turquoise Book Band, Oxford Level 7: Discovery: Mixed Pack of 5

Project X Origins: Turquoise Book Band, Oxford Level 7: Discovery: Mixed Pack of 5

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